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: I was just inserting links with the right spelling into an article on the german hitchwiki. Since they didn't work and the german thing links to the english articles for german motorways, I thought I'd just fix the whole issue. It is not only the official spelling for the german "Autobahn"s, it's also really logical to have the space at least after our spelling rules. I didn't and still don't see the harm of the moves because we still have redirects to cover those who type it without the space...--[[User:Speckmade|Speckmade]] 13:31, 3 February 2012 (CET)
::Let me understand this, to correct something on the German wiki you start moving all the pages on the English one? Sheesh, that's really good for consistency on the English one where George has been setting up these pages for weeks. [[User:Prino|Prino]] 15:59, 3 February 2012 (CET)
::: I just thought I'd make everything the way it should be while I'm already at it. Sure I will take care of consistency, if you let me. The whole thing was about consistency, kind of. I can also take care of other occurances. (I got computers and full-text search to my help - it's no big deal, really.) I didn't destroy those pages, I just moved them. I don't see the harm. I left all the redirects in place.--[[User:Speckmade|Speckmade]] 20:31, 9 February 2012 (CET)
::: I guess the cleanest way to do this is having redirects for any motorway. I think it's always a good idea to have many redirects to cover anything a visitor could type into the searchbox, or an editor could type into a link. Let me know if you want to move/create/edit/delete a lot of articles after a certain pattern at once. There are ways to automate this.
::: Anyway, it's nice ask on talk pages before doing mass edits. There are always some very active people around here who read the RecentChanges, so there will usually be some opinions or at least responses very quick. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 18:09, 3 February 2012 (CET)
Where can I find the spelling rules? --[[User:GeorgDerReisende|GeorgDerReisende]] 18:30, 3 February 2012 (CET)
: "A 1" is short for "(Bundes-)Autobahn 1" and such numbering is separated by a space. See [http://bmvbs.de/DE/VerkehrUndMobilitaet/Verkehrstraeger/Strasse/strasse_node here], for example; the documentation for OpenStreetMap contributors is [http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Germany/Kreisstra%C3%9Fen#Hinweise_zum_Taggen_und_zur_Benennung explicit] on that. - Well, this isn't much more than explanations and some more or less official sources for the moment... Maybe I have a clue on where to seek for the source of some confusion with this space: In typesetting, the correct way to set it is a narrow space.--[[User:Speckmade|Speckmade]] 20:31, 9 February 2012 (CET)

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